When Ye Chang first heard that her subordinate Blue Bat was an undercover agent, she wasn't too surprised.
Rather, it's more accurate to say that in the Black Church, which is almost entirely composed of villains, everyone is a pawn that can be discarded.
Whether they are genuinely converted to the Black Church, using the Black Church, or are undercover members, it doesn't matter to the Black Church.
For the cardinal, everyone is a useful pawn if used properly.
Moreover, Ye Chang had long suspected that Blue Bat was an undercover agent, but she was never sure.
But for Ye Chang, she didn't need any solid evidence to prove that Blue Bat was an undercover agent.
She could have eliminated Blue Bat the moment she began to suspect he was an undercover agent.
Even if it turns out later that Blue Bat was wronged, it doesn't matter.
The Black Church doesn't care about betrayal; it only cares about interests and gains.
So Blue Bat's life was temporarily saved thanks to Su Lan's intervention.
There was no point in keeping Blue Bat by Ye Chang's side any longer, so Su Lan temporarily transferred her to another place.
Serafina sealed away her memories of the Inquisition and the Black Church, and is now an external member of the Alien Hunters, working on the front lines of missions.
Once this matter is resolved, Su Lan will unseal Blue Bat's memories, allowing her to choose her own path.
Just as Su Lan was watching the night deepen and preparing to spend the night with Serafina, Serafina's gaze turned to the eastern city wall of the ancient capital.
"Father God, I've caught the old king's little tail."
Serafina conjured silver-white spatial rules in her hand and looked intently at Su Lan.
"Have you pinpointed the location of Sha Yuan?"
"That's right, we can teleport there now."
"Okay, let's go then."
Before this man-made catastrophe in the ancient capital begins, Su Lan plans to make a trip to Sha Yuan in advance to have a heart-to-heart talk with the ancient king.
He had no other thoughts; he simply didn't want things to get out of his control.
Even with Serafina's strength, if the Ancient King were to personally intervene, she would only face annihilation.
But Su Lan never liked being passive with unstable factors; he preferred to take the initiative and control everything.
As Su Lan finished speaking, Serafina directly tore open a spatial rift and took Su Lan's arm as they entered.
After the two disappeared into the spatial rift, the silvery-white doorway vanished automatically.
The evening breeze blew gently, as if nothing had happened.
On the other side, after passing through a bizarre and fantastical spatial passage, Su Lan and Serafina appeared in a hazy gray space.
The moment the two appeared, an extremely powerful mental shockwave struck, attempting to pull them into an illusion.
However, just as this mental impact was about to reach the two of them, it automatically dissipated into the air, failing to cause any harm to Su Lan and Serafina.
Only then did Su Lan begin to look around.
Contrary to expectations that emerging from a spatial passage would mean facing an army of millions of undead, the space they were in didn't have a single zombie in sight.
This gray, hazy space is somewhat similar to the world Su Lan experienced when she went to the Summoning Dimension.
However, compared to the world of the summoning plane, this place has its limits.
"As expected of one of the top five strongest humans throughout history, the Ancient King's mastery of space is far beyond imagination."
Through Serafina's contractual perception, he sensed that this layer of space, after more than two thousand years of operation, remained remarkably stable.
This space was not only created using spatial magic, but also utilized the laws of other magic systems.
For example, the white palace not far in front of us.
"Let's go take a look over there before our master arrives."
Serafina nodded, and then the two of them instantly teleported to the front of the white palace.
Upon closer inspection, it became clear that this was not a palace inhabited by people.
It was actually the tomb where the emperor resided after his death.
The white tomb appears magnificent, noble, holy, and serene, but because it is entirely constructed of white jade, this eerie white color exudes a sinister and terrifying atmosphere, with an extremely strong sense of death.
If you stare at the white tomb for a long time, you may even unconsciously become polluted by the deathly aura contained within it.
Su Lan and the other person will not be affected in any way.
The two of them arrived in the Abyss of Evil through the spatial passage, and they will surely be discovered by the ancient king, the master of this place.
There is no solution.
This space has been marked by the ancient king, and the spatial laws that are enforced here also bear the mark of the ancient king.
Any outsider who trespasses here will be detected by the ancient king.
Su Lan looked down at the palace built of white jade stones, which were so smooth that Su Lan and Serafina's clear reflections could be seen.
"What a rich bastard!"
Each piece of jade here could fetch hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars elsewhere.
If Su Lan were to move this palace, built entirely of white jade, out into the outside world, it could fetch several billion.
However, the price of jade in the market will plummet at that time.
It was only then that Su Lan turned her attention to the slowly churning clouds in the sky.
However, these clouds looked strange no matter how you looked at them.
"Serafina, are those clouds in the sky?"
He frowned as he stared at the dense "clouds" that looked like rows of figures. In fact, he already knew what the "clouds" in the sky were when he opened his mouth.
"No, my Father God, the 'clouds' in the sky are a warning system made up of countless dead souls."
"When outsiders enter this place, it will automatically trigger countless undead in the sky, causing them to fall down and attack us."
Serafina spoke casually, showing no regard for the countless undead in the sky.
If she wanted, she could annihilate the Abyss of Fiends with a flick of her finger, let alone the undead in the sky, and throw the Ancient King into the spatial turbulence to become spatial particles, never to be resurrected.
After saying this, Serafina glanced sideways at the corner not far away.
"If you don't come out to greet us, then we'll just break through this place and see if your king can survive my attack."
The moment Serafina finished speaking, some spatial fluctuations appeared not far away, and a graceful woman who looked almost human stepped out.
When she appeared, a subtle fragrance wafted out.
Her eyes were alluring and captivating; anyone with a weak will would surely fall into her illusion upon seeing them—a sight both sinister and terrifying.
This eye technique is similar to, or even stronger than, the two Medusas Su Lan encountered in the Serpent Empire.
Now, Apas also has a similar mental eye technique, with roughly the same power as Jiuyouhou.
The newcomer was none other than Jiuyouhou, one of the eight fallen monarchs under the ancient king, whose strength was at the level of a great monarch.
However, after Jiuyou appeared, she immediately stopped the automatically released mental illusion and bowed to Su Lan and Serafina with fear and humility.
"I, the Queen of the Nine Netherworlds, have come to pay my respects to the two lords on the orders of my king."
"Please, gentlemen, follow me to the palace where my king resides."